Dossier · Non-legislative procedure
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction
- Reference
- 2023/0353(NLE) Non-legislative procedure
- Where it stands
- Completed: published in the Official Journal on 19 July 2024 and now EU law.
- Stage
- Adopted by the Council
- Lead committee
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety ENVI
More facts (4)
- Rapporteur
- MEP #197805
- Decisions in plenary
- None yet
- Versions
- 3 versions
- Opinions from
- PECH
Where it stands
The steps of this kind of dossier and how far it has come, from the procedure file.
- Referred to committee (done) 22 April 2024
- Committee work (done) Report adopted 18 April 2024
- Tabled for plenary (done) 19 April 2024
- Plenary vote (done) Adopted 24 April 2024
- Adopted by the Council (done) 19 July 2024
A decision the Council takes on its own. Depending on the Treaty article, Parliament either gives its consent — accepting or rejecting the text without amending it — or is consulted and gives an opinion.
People
Committees and members responsible for the dossier, as the procedure file names them. Groups as recorded there.
- Lead committee
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety ENVI
- Rapporteur
- MEP #197805 (The Left) former member
- Opinion: PECH
- Fisheries · rapporteur MEP #197441 (S&D) former member
Decisions in plenary, 0
Every decision Parliament took on this dossier, newest first.
No plenary decision on this dossier is in the records yet.
Every roll-call vote on the dossier, in date and voting order, with each group's line at the date of the vote.
No roll-call vote was recorded on this dossier.
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Versions, 3
The text of the dossier, version by version, newest first. Compare shows what changed between two consecutive versions.
Adopted by Parliament24 Apr 2024
Adopted text TA9-0337/2024 TA-9-2024-0337
Tabled for plenary19 Apr 2024
Report A9-0177/2024 A-9-2024-0177
Committee draft22 Mar 2024
Draft report (ENVI) ENVI-PR-759989
AI: Each version in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source
- Report A9-0177/2024: Parliament's committee report asks Parliament to give its consent to the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction.
Committee opinions: Draft opinion (PECH), Opinion (PECH)
What changed
Between consecutive versions of the text, newest pair first.
No overview of what changed between versions is available for this dossier. The “Compare” links under Versions show every change between two versions.
Timeline, 8
Every recorded step, newest first, grouped by stage; the latest stage is open.
Outcome 1 step · 19 Jul 2024
19 July 2024
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
Plenary stage 1 step · 24 Apr 2024
24 April 2024
Plenary vote
Sitting of 24 Apr 2024 Adopted text TA9-0337/2024Report A9-0177/2024
Committee stage 1 step · 22 Apr 2024
22 April 2024
Referred to the ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; PECH (Fisheries) gives an opinion.
Plenary stage 1 step · 19 Apr 2024
19 April 2024
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps · 23 Jan 2024–18 Apr 2024
18 April 2024
Committee vote: report adopted
ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
22 March 2024
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
20 March 2024
PECH (Fisheries) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
23 January 2024
Draft opinion from PECH (Fisheries)
An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.
Connections
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Sources & citation
Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.
- Official source
- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Retrieved
- 25 September 2026
Cite as
European Parliament (2026). “Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction”. Dossier. reference 2023/0353(NLE). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-0353 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2023/0353(NLE), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2023%2F0353(NLE). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2023-0353,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-0353}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-0353},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Dossier. reference 2023/0353(NLE). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2023\%2F0353(NLE). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
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